As a kid, I used to think about running away all the time (I know – totally shocking). The thing with my running away dreams was that I never wanted to run away to some place real. Running away to join the circus? I wouldn’t have even known where to find one. Running away to the big city? Wouldn’t have known where to find one of those either. So, I climbed trees. Climbing to the top was as far away as I could get without crossing the street.
I wanted wilderness. Until I went camping in the wilderness and determined that civilization was preferable to peeing behind a tree while birds looked on and varmints scampered about.
Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson’s new movie, looks like it captures all of those childhood longings and more. Why, yes! We do have a contest! But, watch the trailer, first:
OK! The contest.
Two (2) winners will receive a Moonrise Kingdom prize pack containing:
· T-Shirt
· Patches (set of two)
· Picnic Set
· Canteen
· Original Soundtrack (CD)
I looooove that the picnic set includes a cooler, cheeseboard, cheese spreader, and corkscrew.
TO ENTER!
Answer the following question in the comments below:
You’re running away. Where are you going (real or fictional) and what do you do when you get there?
We’ll draw two winners at the beginning of next week!
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Lisa Fary's earliest influences are Princess Leia, Rainbow Bright, Astronaut Barbie, and her 6th grade teacher, Ms. Palmer. She's angry that it's 2011 and she still doesn't have a hovercraft, but will accept a jetpack as consolation. That jetpack had better be pink with a rhinestone monogram. 
Holy eff, this looks amazing. I have to give a go~!
I’d probably run away to the fictional space colonies imagined in these retro-futuristic artworks:
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/AC76-1089f….
http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/70sArt/AC75-1086-1…
As for what I’d do…probably aid a rebellion of some sort. Rebelling against THE MAN, as is a common theme in the sci fi stories I consume. I’d probably just end up writing anti-establishment ukulele songs…OF THE FUTURE.
I, like Rose Tyler, could never be happy running away and then staying in one place. So, it would have to be more of a hitchhiker’s guide kind of run. So I would move into The Heart of Gold and continue to explore what is out there. I would, of course, bring a towel.
To King’s Landing and force my wiles upon Tyrion Lannister!
or in the real world to wherever they are filming Game of Thrones and force my wiles upon Peter Dinklage.
He’s really causing a stir with my other pretend harem members.
I always wanted to run away and live in a tree, like My Side of the Mountain. I used to practice by living in the closet of my childhood bedroom. I had a little box always packed and ready to go, in case the opportunity (to escape my loving, supportive family) arrived. It included the alphabet written inside the lid, so I wouldn’t forget how to read in my isolation. That’s still pretty appealing in a total fantasy sort of way.
Or maybe I would run away to my alternate timeline, where I didn’t get married and have a kid, and am living in an eclectic little apartment in Chinatown, having some sort of a career where they pay me when I accomplish things.
I always wanted to go to Oz and hang out with Princess Ozma in the Emerald City!
Disneyland. I just want to be a princess.
I’d like to camp out in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a few weeks a la “From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler” but wouldn’t mind running off to a Wes Anderson created world either.
I am running away to Hogwarts, & when I get there, I am going to become a great wizard!
I wanted to run away and live in the natural history museum.
I would run away to the moon and have a party with some aliens when I get there.